What a piece of work is a man
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The phrase "What a piece of work is a man! " comes from Shakespeare's Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, Act II, scene II, and it is often used in reference to the whole speech containing the line. The soliloquy, spoken in the play by the eponymous character, follows in its entirety:
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I will tell you why; so shall my anticipation |
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- See also: References to Hamlet
In the Reduced Shakespeare Company's production The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged), the more famous solliloquy, "To be, or not to be," is omitted from the Hamlet portion of the production, not for time constraints, or because the speech is so well known, but because the group states that they dislike the speech for momentum and motivation reasons. The What a piece of work is a man speech is delivered in its stead.
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